Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney visited the set of CBS This Morning on Tuesday, accompanied by his wife, Ann Romney. Anchor Charlie Rose asked Romney to comment headline-making back-and-forth with President Barack Obama and his campaign on whether Romney would have approved the raid on Osama bin Laden‘s compound.

Did Romney believe, Rose asked, that the Obama campaign’s ad — featuring former President Bill Clinton — worked to “politicize” bin Laden’s killing?

“Well, as I said at the time,” Romney responded, “when the announcement was made about Osama bin Laden having been killed, I congratulated the President and the intelligence community as well as, of course, SEAL Team Six for their extraordinary valor in carrying out this direction. so I acknowledged the President’s success and think he has every right to take credit for him having ordered that attack I think it was. It was very disappointing for the President to try to make this a political item by suggesting that I wouldn’t have ordered such a raid. Of course I would have. Any American, any thinking American, would have ordered exactly the same thing.”